Tuesday, November 29, 2016

homework and exercises - Why must identical lightbulbs in series have identical voltage drops?


When I connect two identical lightbulbs in series, how come they have equal brightness? Why can't one lightbulb have a larger voltage drop than the other? (i.e. the first lightbulb "uses up all the energy" and the second lightbulb is barely lit because "there isn't much energy left"?




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classical mechanics - Moment of a force about a given axis (Torque) - Scalar or vectorial?

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